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Minovici", in order to ensure the specific framework for caring out forensic
expertise, when the subject of the forensic assessment is an inmate, and for the
training of the prison system medical staff, according to the international human
rights standards.
We also mention that there is now an ongoing consultation on a common draft
Order of the Minister of Health and the Minister of Justice regarding the providing
of medical assistance for the inmates in the custody of the National Administration
of Penitentiaries, stipulating provisions regarding the setting of records, as
recommended by the United Nations Office concerning the documentation on
torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatments.
In 2016, in the continuous training of the deputy directors working in the social
reintegration field were included human rights themes and the presentation
was provided by a representative of the non-governmental organization ApadorCH. This year, the "Courses Catalogue" is in process of being finalized and promoted
and it includes the following training modules for all staff categories:
-
European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Punishment or Inhuman or
Degrading Treatments - specific legislation, notions, visit system and situational tests;
Equal opportunities;
Human rights - ways of preventing discrimination, especially in case of Roma people.
B. Registers
Para. 45 - Digitization of prisoners’ records
At police level, the General Inspectorate of the Romanian Police has assembled a
fully digital central data base of all detainees which is updated in real-time (that
is, every time a detainee’s legal status changes, security staff update his/her
record as soon as possible). There is work done on a second version of this database
with new and improved features which is scheduled to be released in the course
of the current year.
In the penitentiary system, for the registration of inmates, the computerized
application PMSWeb is used. All relevant data are recorded in this application, such
as: details about the convicted person, the transfers between prisons, court
subpoenas, convictions delivered by the courts, updated status regarding the
conditional release deadlines, decisions regarding the conditional release, carried
out activities, the requests made by the inmates, the granted visits, the
educational, psychological and social assessments and activities, the financial
situation of the inmates, information about the inmates’ health, the execution
regimes for each inmate and other necessary data for the execution of custodial
sentences and observance for the inmates’ rights.
The specialty medical exams upon the inmates, the allocation of food diets, the
ability to work and the elaborated prescriptions are also recorded in the PMSWeb
application. Also, providing the primary medical care on demand/as emergency
must be highlighted in the consultation registers, because these are forensic
records where the inmates sign for receiving chronic/acute medication and for any
medical procedure. At the same time, the inmates sign for accepting or refusing
to receive the medication recommended by the medical staff.
Regarding the educational, psychological and social information which are part of
the Education and Psychosocial Assistance File, we mention that the measures to
simplify the records have already been taken in order to be directly generated
from the PMSWeb application.
All data and information mentioned above can be sorted and centralized in 130
different reports.
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